Daley Accuses 3 Of Partying Under False Pretenses

Three promoters were accused Tuesday of booking teen-age dances at Chicago locations by using phony names and telling managers that the events would be awards dinners or fashion shows.

In one case, 600 teen-agers showed up for a ``dance`` on Halloween night at McCormick Place and were told it had been canceled because the exposition hall had insufficient security for that many people. The teen-agers responded by vandalizing the building, doing several thousand dollars damage.

The suit said Terry did business under the aliases of Bill Monroe and Michael Crawford and under the firm names of Galaxy Promotions, Inner City Organisation, National Afro Group, Ladies Choice National Merchandiser, Ladies Choice Merchandising and Inner American Leisure Group.

Daley said Hill used the alias of Kristine Hillery and did business under the name of Ladies Choice Merchandising, while Alexander did business under the name of National Afro Group.

Daley is seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the promoters from booking or collecting money for entertainment events. The suit also seeks a $50,000 fine for violating the state consumer fraud act by using phony names in making the reservations.

The suit charges that Terry booked the Halloween event as an awards ceremony that would draw 250 people to the Chicago Room and as a fashion show and reception that would draw 200 people .

Meanwhile, he had passed out fliers to high school students advertising the ``House Massacre`` dance and sold tickets at $6 to $8 a person. When the catering service used by McCormick Place to book some of its rooms saw disc jockeys setting up speakers and heard from early-arriving students how the event had been promoted, the dance was canceled. Some teen-agers became unruly and caused property damage, the suit charged.

Terry also fled McCormick Place without refunding the teen-agers` money, the suit said.

Daley charged Terry and Alexander with using the same ruse to book a dance primarily for teen-agers that included a cash bar at the Americana Congress Hotel on Nov. 26 and Terry and Hill with doing the same thing for a Christmas Eve dance at the same hotel. When hotel officials found out that the events were not the awards ceremony and fashion show they had been told about, they canceled them.

A fourth dance under alleged phony pretenses was booked for the McCormick Inn for Nov. 27 but was canceled when the hotel learned that Terry used an alias.